Despite an ever-growing scholarly interest in the work of Edmund Husserl and in the history of the phenomenological movement, much of the contemporaneous scholarly context surrounding Husserl's work remains shrouded in darkness. While much has been written about the critiques of Husserl's work associated with Heidegger, Levinas, and Sartre, comparatively little is known of the debates that Husserl was directly involved in. The present volume addresses this gap in scholarship by presenting a comprehensive selection of contemporaneous responses to Husserl's work. Ranging in date from 1906 to 1917, these texts bookend Husserl's landmark Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (1913). The selection encompasses essays that Husserl responded to directly in the Ideas I, as well as a number of the critical and sympathetic essays that appeared in the wake of its publication. Significantly, the present volume also includes Husserl's subsequent responses to his critics. All of the texts included have been translated into English for the first time, introducing the reader to a wide range of long-neglected material that is highly relevant to contemporary debates regarding the meaning and possibility of phenomenology.

• Table of Contents 6
• Introduction 10
• Part I Background (1905–1913) 22
• Theodor Elsenhans 22
• Theodor Elsenhans. Selections from Textbook of Psychology 26
• Henry Jackson Watt 44
• Henry J. Watt. Literature Review: Second General Review on New Research in the Psychology of Memory and Association from the Yea 48
• Carl Stumpf 88
• Carl Stumpf. Appearances And Psychic Functions 90
• Jonas Cohn 124
• Jonas Cohn. The Fundamental Questions of Psychology 126
• Theodor Ziehen 160
• Theodor Ziehen. Selections from Epistemology on the Basis of Psychophysiological and Physical Grounds 162
• August Messer 222
• August Messer. Husserl’s Phenomenology in its Relation to Psychology 224